Truman Smith

Truman Smith (27 November 1791-3 May 1884) was a member of the US House of Representatives (W-CN 5) from 4 March 1839 to 3 March 1843 (succeeding Lancelot Phelps) and from CN 4 from 4 March 1845 to 3 March 1849 (succeeding Samuel Simons and preceding Thomas B. Butler), and a US Senator from 4 March 1849 to 24 May 1854 (succeeding John Milton Niles and preceding Francis Gillette).

Biogrpahy
Truman Smith was born in Roxbury, Connecticut in 1791, the nephew of Nathaniel Smith and Nathan Smith, and he became a lawyer in Litchfield in 1818. He served in the state legislature before serving in the US House of Representatives from 1839 to 1843 and from 1845 to 1849, and then in the US Senate from 1849 to 1854. From 1862 to 1870, he assisted Britain with the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade as a judge. He died in Stamford in 1884.